Posted on 01/18/2015 1:15:05 PM PST by Straight Vermonter
Data is probably BS, but I bet a good guess might come from wills and property sales/transfers that happen at death.
I’d be shocked if the household gun ownership rate in small population counties (especially in the West) wasn’t close to 90%.
I'm sure that's true. But did you know that in MA there is a mandatory one year sentence for anyone who is found in possession of an unregistered gun? The MA state government wants to know exactly who is armed. If you try to sneak something past them, they will totally destroy your life. No ifs, no ands, no buts.
My guess is from the latest census. Of course that is self reported data for what that is worth.
this chart is cr@p. In the emergency room I’d say 90% of the doctors own weapons, 80% of the nurses own pistols and over 50% hunt or have husbands that hunt. Just from random conversations with parents on volleyball team, tennis team, track team MOST of the parents have firearms and I’m positive that there are some neighborhoods in rural Texas that 100% of the households have a firearm of some sort.
Agreed. I know there are several thousand registered handguns here in Jackson county which isn’t a huge percentage out of 120,000 or so people but 90% of the people I know have several unregistered shotguns and rifles. Even one of my liberal cousins in Kalamazoo is an avid shooter and has a couple of rifles.
I'm in cali and there is no way in hell we have to register all of the weapons we have. Sorry for you....
No, I really don’t like it...STATISTicians and the government should not know this kind of information...
Not talking CCW. Just to own a gun depends on the whim of a guy who wants his fellow LEOs not to fear for their lives.
But, hey, it's not like the right to keep and bears armss is infringed in any way ...
I think the only reason #86 Pima County, AZ is in the top 100 is because my son lives in the Catalina Foothills. LOL!
This map is questionable.
Before all my guns were lost in that canoeing accident you could've counted me among the "yes" respondents....
Who has all the .22LR?
Well given that most gun purchases have to go through a Brady check, which means the fed gov finds out about them it’s not terribly difficult to divide gun purchases by population and there you. And no surprised Alaska would head the list, it’s a wild place filled with wild critters, pretty everybody needs a gun if only for the noise.
SIL and family live in #4 - Armstrong county. She says they can’t find .22 shells.
As firearms ownership is increasingly politicized, and owners duck intrusive survey takers, measures of ownership will only become less reliable.
http://www.people-press.org/2013/03/12/section-3-gun-ownership-trends-and-demographics/
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“There is no definitive data source from the government or elsewhere on how many Americans own guns or how gun ownership rates have changed over time. Also, public opinion surveys provide conflicting results: Some show a decline in the number of households with guns, but another does not.”
“The General Social Survey (GSS), conducted roughly every two years by the independent research organization NORC at the University of Chicago, with principal funding from the National Science Foundation, provides a widely-used look at the rate of gun ownership over time. The GSS data show a substantial decline in the shares of both households and individuals with guns. When the GSS first asked about gun ownership in 1973, 49% reported having a gun or revolver in their home or garage. In 2012, 34% said they had a gun in their home or garage. When the survey first asked about personal gun ownership in 1980, 29% said a gun in their home personally belonged to them. This stands at 22% in the 2012 GSS survey.”
Trayvon won’t be polar bear hunting there.
Can't be good!
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